What do you think that Roman road would look like if it had 10000 heavy trucks drive over it every day?
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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So what we need is a way to move 10000 trucks worth of materials a day on a more robust path. Maybe something made of steel and the wheels can be steel too. Too bad something like that could never exist.
We also need to tax cars and trucks by weight and mileage. Your car tears up the road more, you pay more.
Specifically, tax them by (weight/axle)^4 * speed^2. You'll notice that a 2ton car costs 16x as much as a 1ton car.
No, consumers have to pay for businesses so we're "competitive". If businesses had to pay for roads they would stop transporting goods. Instead they would start using their big brains to simply teleport goods. Without sale of fossil fuels GDP goes way down and the economy crashes. Do you want the economy to crash?
Yeah while we're dreaming can we both have ponies
For that matter, I have my doubts that driving at high speed over a cobblestone road would work out much better than driving at high speed over a road with potholes.
Asphalt offers amazing grip in pretty much all weather. Cobblestone is basically a waterslide in a mild drizzle. There wouldn't be any driving because there would be non-stop wrecks.
If it's anything like brick roads, it would give you a free massage
(To the grave)
Survivorship bias.
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Hey! I didn't know we had a community for best Carolina. Sweet.
driving on that roman road feels like it's made from 90% potholes tho. brrrrt 😆